Zhang Huan | Ordinary Life

The exhibition gathers eight ash paintings on linen that recreate twentieth-century photographs in the artist's personal library on a grand scale. The anonymous figures, absorbed in thought, are reminders that the ideas of common people have revolutionary power but are nonetheless impermanent, passing through history like dust in the wind. As the artist summarizes, “Art should be about daily life, which has lots of parts. It is mundane and ordinary, but it is also dramatic and theatrical.”